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Dr. Aty have just returned from visiting Korea and China.
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Env. Engr graduate student recognized
Stephanie Bolyard exemplifies the multiple areas of expertise essential for effective environmental practice. Ms. Bolyard serves as an academic, in her role as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Central Florida where she is engaged in the study of the fate and transport of engineered nanoparticles in municipal solid waste landfills. Ms. Bolyard serves as a consultant, in her role as a permit writer for Brown and Caldwell where she contributes to solid waste management plans, landfill closure stabilization evaluations, waste characterization studies, permit applications for solid waste management facilities, and permit writing for environmental compliance projects.
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Dr. Essam Radwan presented a paper on Augmented Reality technology applications to traffic engineering at the International Association of Management of Technology (IAMOT 2012) meeting held at Hsinchu, Taiwan in March 19.
He visited the Industrial Technology Research Institute, a nonprofit R&D organization engaging in applied research and technical services. Numerous well-known, high-tech companies in Taiwan, such as leaders in the semiconductor industry TSMC and UMC, trace their origins to ITRI.
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Feb. 20, 2012 - CECS Civil Engineering Assistant Professor Honored Nationally
Dr. Kaveh Madani, UCF assistant professor, is named a 2012 New Face of Civil Engineering by the American Society of Civil Engineering.
Madani, an assistant professor in CECS’s department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering since 2011, has been honored nationally for his professional and personal efforts to achieve that goal.read moreDr. Kaveh Madanii received the 2011-2012 Knights of the RoundTable “Advisor of the Year” RSO Award for his accomplishments as the Adviser of the Engineers Without Borders (EWB) student chapter at UCF . This award was presented during the Student Leader Recognition Banquet at UCF on April 10..............Dr. Madani has been elected as a DISCCRS (Dissertation Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research) Scholar, Supported by NSF and NASA. He will be attending the DISCCRS VI Symposium (October 22 - 29, Colorado Springs, Colorado).
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Frontiers of Engineering:
Dr. Necati CatbasAn elite group of 60 engineers age 45 and younger from the United States and Europe met in California to share ideas, forge partnerships and advance the future of engineering. CECS's Necati Catbas, a structural engineer, was the only participant from Florida to receive the invitational award to the Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) U.S.-Europe meeting after a highly selective process.
Dr. Fidelia Nnadi has been appointed Director of CECS Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
She is charged with recruiting and retaining more students, staff and faculty members from underrepresented groups - a term that refers to not just ethnic minorities, but gender, religious, and sexual preference-based minorities as well.
Dr. Kevin R. Mackie is elected chair of ASCE/SEI national technical committee entitled 'Emerging Analysis Methods for Earthquake Engineering
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Dr. Scott C. Hagen presents an invited talk at the FWEA Integrated Water Resources Conference, January 27, 2012
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- Announcements
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- Lecturer Position
The Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering (CECE) of the University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, invites applications for one Lecturer position to start August 2012. Of particular interest are candidates who will support the department’s teaching mission. The minimum qualification is a Masters degree in Civil, Environmental, or Construction engineering. Prior university-level teaching experience, Professional Engineering registration, and a Ph.D. in engineering are preferred. Responsibilities of the successful candidates include teaching mainly the undergraduate courses in the broad areas of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, and a service course in Geography. The position is a non-tenured 9-month academic appointment.
With more than 1,000 undergraduate and 150 graduate students, the Department offers doctoral and masters programs in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and ABET- accredited bachelor’s programs in Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering. The instructional and research activities are conducted by over 18 tenured/tenure-track faculty members.
The Department offers potential opportunities for professional growth and enjoys excellent partnerships with local and regional companies. Located in the heart of the I-4 high tech corridor, UCF has one of the largest enrollments among U.S. universities.
Screening of applications will begin on June 1, 2012 and will continue until the position is filled. Candidates should submit the following items online at http://www.jobswithucf.com/postings/32235 : (a) curriculum vitae, (b) a brief description of teaching philosophy and interests, (c) the names and contact information of three references, and (d) an application.The University of Central Florida is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
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Drs. Hagen, Chopra, Madani & Wang are serving as the local organizing committee and hosting the 10th International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering (http://iche2012.org), which will be held in Orlando from Nov. 4-7, 2012.
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Dr. Mustafa Gül, a former doctoral student and post-doctoral research associate at CECE took a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Alberta, which is one of the top universities in Canada and well-regarded in the world as well. Dr. Gül‚s research interests mainly lie in the area of Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) for improving their performance by means of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM).
SHM is a highly interdisciplinary research area integrating different cutting edge technologies. In civil engineering, SHM systems can be implemented to different CIS, such as bridges, buildings, power plants and pipelines, to improve their safety and reliability as well as to optimize the management operations.
SHM systems are considered as one of the critical components of future‚s sustainable smart CIS. Dr. Gul received a doctoral degree in civil engineering as well as an MS in Electrical Engineering, and worked under the direction of Dr. Necati Catbas of CECE. -
Peter Bacopoulos, Ph.D., a former CECE doctoral student and post-doctoral research associate has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the University of North Florida in the Civil Engineering department of the School of Engineering. Dr. Bacopoulos will also join the UNF Taylor Engineering Research Institute. Pete received all of his degrees at UCF and worked in the CHAMPS Lab under the direction of Dr. Scott C. Hagen of CECE.
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Mr. Ozerk Sazak, one of the graduates of CECE, has started his own company and projects are already lined up. He was an MS student of Dr Necati Catbas and he returned back to Turkey after completing his graduate studies.
Ozerk, who had not much idea of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) when he first came to UCF, had curiosity and entrepreneurial sprit and now he is implementing his knowledge to practical cases in Turkey. His company OPTENG Project Engineering provides structural health monitoring applications including design service to its clients with a dynamic team following up new technologies and methodologies in all engineering cases.
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Mr. Ali Noorollahi, P.E., also a graduate of UCF, was recently recognized for his Exemplary Support for Bridge Engineering Education at the University of Central Florida.A certificate of appreciation was presented to Mr Noorollahi by the the Departmentment Chair Dr. Essam Radwan with a mini-ceremony during Dr. Necati Catbas' Bridge Engineering and Health Monitoring class. -
Robert D. Kersten, PE, Founding Dean of the UCF College of Engineering and CECE Faculty Emeritus was recently honored by Union Pan-Americana de Asociaciones de Ingenieria (UPADI) for his work with the organization at the biennial convention in Havana, Cuba. read more 
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Two of our PhD students –
Stephanie Bolyard (Dr. Reinhart’s student) and
Kurt Westerlund (Dr. David Cooper’s student)–have received scholarship awards from the International Air & Waste Management Association!
There were only 9 graduate scholarships awarded by AWMA this year. This reflects great honor not only for the two students but also for our program at UCF!
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The EWRI-ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management has selected Dr. Dingbao Wang & co-authors to receive the 2012 Best Research-Oriented Paper Award for "Value of Probabilistic Weather Forecasts: Assessment by Real-Time Optimization of Irrigation Scheduling" Ximing Cai, Mohamad I. Hejazi, and Dingbao Wang, Vol. 137, No. 5, pp. 391-403, 2011.
The award will be presented during the World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2012, May 20 - 24, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
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Dr. Ni-Bin Chang has received the "Bridging the Gaps Award" from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom and he will be hosted and honored by the University of Exeter in England in Mid-May 2012.
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Dr. Ni-Bin Chang was invited to give a presentation entitled "Sensor and Data Fusion for Monitoring Changing Environment and Ecosystems: the Evolutionary Pathway" by the The Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales (Nicaraguan Geosciences Institute, INETER), Nigaragua in early May 2012. He will also help review the INETER research programs in GIS and remote sensing.
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Dr. Behzadan received the "2012 Distinguished New Faculty Award" During the 23rd International Conference on College Teaching and Learning. The Award pays tribute to new educators who are guiding the millennial students into the future. This award is designed to recognize new faculty by celebrating their current contributions to advancing education, and to encourage their future contributions to the teaching profession.
Dr. Behzadan received the "2012 Outstanding New Teacher Award" from the Southeastern Section of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). This Award recognizes a faculty member who has less than four years of teaching experience and has demonstrated excellence in the classroom.
For the second year in a row, Dr. Behzadan was selected as an Outstanding Reviewer of the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management for his outstanding service to the Journal. He has been serving as the Assistant Specialty Editor in the area of Quantitative Methods and a technical reviewer for the Journal since 2009.
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Drew Rossi, President of ASCE Student Chapter at UCF, was recently recognized for his on-going efforts to establish a “Hot Works” area for welding for the Steel Bridge Team.This process has taken several years, the end result is that Drew has been recognized by the University of Central Florida for his and the ASCE student chapter’s contribution to making advancements in Safety. The “Hot Works” policy that has been developed is being used as a template for other areas of campus that seek to establish such an area.
Congratulations Drew!
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The Center for Advanced Transportation Systems Simulation (CATSS) were awarded a one-year grant.On January 17, 2012, the Research and Innovative Technologies Administration (RITA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the winners of the recent University Transportation Centers (UTC) competition. The Center for Advanced Transportation Systems Simulation (CATSS) at in the College of Engineering and Computer Science joined by Georgia Tech (as the consortium leader), Florida International University, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham were awarded a Tier 1 center funded as a one-year grant at a funding level of $3.5 million. This grant is to be expended over a two-year period and it requires a Dollar-for-Dollar match from non-federal sources.
Dr. Scott C. Hagen is PI on a five year, $3M project to study the Ecological Effects of Sea Level Rise in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (EESLR-NGOM). Funding is provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Center for Sponsored Coastal and Ocean Research. This project involves a large multidisciplinary team including, from CECE, Dr. Dingbao Wang, Prof. Emeritus Gour-Tsyh Yeh, and from UCF Dr. Denise DeLorme (School of Communication), Profs. Linda Walters and John Weishampel (Biology), as well as partners from the University of Florida, Florida State University, University of South Carolina, the Northwest Florida Water Management District and Dewberry, Inc.
The project is examining the EESLR-NGOM by using first principle models of physics for hydrodynamics and transport, and laboratory and in situ analyses for better understanding the ecology of local ecosystem engineering species including marsh grasses, oysters, and submerged aquatic vegetation.
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